Chris Travers wrote:
On 9/19/06, David Tangye <..hidden..> wrote:
On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 13:27 -0700, Chris Travers wrote:
Hi Tony,
I think it is too late to change the name of the table to
transactions, but I will consider it.
Its never too late to correct something, *if* its not right, surely?
You have a point. But I don't think this is at this point an issue of
one being "right" and the other being "not right" at the moment. In
this case, I think it is a matter of stylistics. Both names are
adequate and adequately descriptive, and both names have some slight
shortcomings.
Well this really is semantics. We are essentially dealing with a ledger
there for having ledger in the transactions name is redundant. It
reminds me of people that do this:
tbl_foo
view_bar
Which is silly.
Joshua D. Drake
Hmm, put another way: Ouch, isn't this sounding a tad like the sort of
reaction we did not like when it came out of the SL camp?
If you make a case that it is broken, we will fix it :-) Right now,
this is a matter of whether we have consistant style and type a few
extra characters or whether we shorten the name a bit and change the
style of the rest of the db as we rewrite it. I think it is too late
to revisit this sort of decision unless a case can be made that it is
materially wrong. Otherwise, we can stop coding while we debate in
minute detail the arbitrary decisions made in the coding standards.
:-)
Best Wishes,
Chris Travers
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